INDIVIDUAL TASK 29.

Did English in Australia develop its

THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH character? Where from?
30. What were the relations between the
EPISODE 7 “sterling” and the “currency”?
31. What was the Bushman’s Bible?
32. What is the national trait in Australia? Why?
1. Watch the video and answer the
33. Did Australian English get its own status?
questions.
34. Did the language differentiate people in
Australia?
1. Which force spread English? What did the 35. What was the position of local languages?
sun never set on? Did English bully other languages?
2. What did the new Englishes become? How 37. What was the position of Welsh in Wales?
did they influence the language?
38. Was there a push to revive Welsh? Is the
3. What did English face in India?
number of people speaking it increasing?
4. How did the first Asian words enter English?
5. When did close relationships between 39. Was English ousted from India? Why?
England and India begin? How? 40. How are English and the British Empire
6. What brought the English to India? viewed upon in Australia?
7. How did the English behave in India? 41. What are two recognizable featured of
8. Who was William Jones? What is his Australian English?
contribution? 42. Is the local patois accepted in Jamaica?
9. What had happened by 1765? What were the
changes?
10. Why did the people in Britain decide that the 2. Write out all the words of this
Indians were not British enough? What did they period.
decide to do? 1. Words from India.
11. Why did teaching have to be in English? 2. First borrowings from Sanskrit
12. How did England run India through English? 3. Indian lexicon of power
13. How did India change in the 19th C? 4. Caribbean words
14. What is “Baboo English”? 5. Pirate words
15. Did English of the people from Britain in 6. Aboriginal words
India change? Give examples
16. What did English give to India through the
language?
17. Who challenged British power in India?
How?
18. What was the trip to the Caribbean like?
19. Where did Columbus land?
20. What does “Caribbean” mean?
21. When did England get interested in the
Caribbean region?
22. When and where was the first settlement in
the Caribbean?
23. What did the first settlers do?
24. Is English of the Black people in the
Caribbean recognizable? What is a creole?
26. What happened in January 1788? Where did
they land?
27. Who were the first commuters? Where they
numerous?
28. Was the territory peopled?